LETS Resources |
| EF Schumacher Society | Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. |
| International Journal of Community Currency Research | The aim of this journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the emerging array of community currencies being used throughout the world both at present and in the past. |
| Openmoney | The open money project is a work in progress - a continuation of almost 20 years of LETSystem development all over the world, two community way projects in Canada using smart cards, the Japan open money project, and, most recently, a community currencies server program, cybercredits. |
| Time Dollars Institute | Develop, test, and assist experiments with a new medium of exchange, Time Dollars (also known as service credits or time banking), designed to reward altruism, to turn strangers into extended family, to rebuild community and to empower persons discarded as useless to define themselves as contributors helping to meet critical social needs. |
LETS Networks |
| LETS-Linkup | FREE linkup to local community exchange groups worldwide. |
Fair Shares
UK | Fair Shares is a Charitable Trust set up in January 1998 to explore the practical applications of using time as a currency to rebuild communities in the UK. |
LETS LINK UK Network
UK | At least 40,000 people are involved in the UK's 450 LETS schemes, most of them established according to the democratic and co-operative LETS model developed in Britain by LETSLINK UK during the 1990s. |
LETS Forum
UK | LETS Forum is dedicated to free and low cost alternatives in an increasingly money orientated world, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes and other social inventions. |
LETS in Cornwall
UK | LETS in the South West of England. |
LETS CR
Czech Republic
| In the Czech Republic the first LETS was established in autumn 1999 and nowadays there are several systems there. |
SANE
South Africa | An independent network for the creation of a humane, just, sustainable and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa. |
Strohalm
The Netherlands | Strohalm ontwikkelt rentevrije, lokale geldsystemen in Nederland en de Derde Wereld voor een eerlijke, duurzame economie. |
LETS Vlaanderen
Belgium | LETS Vlaanderen vzw is het steunpunt van en voor LETS-groepen in Vlaanderen. LETS Vlaanderen is samengesteld uit LETS-leden, uit verschillende Vlaamse LETS-groepen. Samen willen zij binnen deze stichting ondersteuning bieden aan beginnende en bestaande LETS-groepen. |
SEL'idaire
France | Ateliers, bibliothèque, activités, liens, listes, carte des sels en France, ... |
Local Currencies - LETS |
USA |
Ithaca Hours
Ithaca, NY | Local currency that pays for plumbing, renting or even loans. Business contacts, articles, video available. |
Madison Hours
Madison, WI | Madison Hours are community currency, issued by the people of the Madison area to increase our local money supply. Because they remain local, Hours enhance and strengthen the economy by employing a local person each time they circulate, without ever draining away to distant parts of the country or world. |
Blooming Hours
Bloomington, IN | BloomingHOURS are Bloomington's hometown paper money bills! They give us a way to trade and barter with each other, to work together more, and to build friendships through sharing our talents. |
Cascadia Hour Exchange
Portland, OR | CHE hours stimulate local business by recycling their wealth. It is backed up by real capital, skills, goods, and services. Participation in CHE opens the door to meet new opportunities. It builds rich and rewarding friendships and improves the local economic community. CHE is based on high values of ethics, integrity and standards that develop deep trust in one another. CHE was established in 1994. |
Canada |
Saltspring Island Dollars
BC
| The Salt Spring Island Dollars Project helps to put our local art, commerce and goodwill into circulation. Salt Spring Island Issued Dollars, symbolized by $$, is the very first alternative, local currency in the world that is backed 100% by a national currency - the Canadian Dollar. |
Calgary Dollars
Alberta | Calgary Dollars uses a bi-monthly newspaper that alternates months with a listings update newsletter and monthly potlucks, along with this website, to connect businesses and individuals who want to get what they need without using money. |
Toronto Dollars
Ontario | Local currency of Toronto. Canadian Dollars can be exchanged at tellers against the Toronto Dollar! |
Europe |
LETS Gent
Belgium | Het LETS systeem werd in Gent in 1995 opgericht door een groepje vrienden en kennissen. |
LETSland
The Netherlands | De Stichting LETSland is een overkoepelende organisatie van de LETSbeweging in Nederland. Het doel van de Stichting is: het bewerkstelligen van een goed funktionerende LETSbeweging in Nederland. |
DenHaag Lets
The Netherlands | DenHaagLets is een lokale ruilkring, een moderne vorm om diensten en goederen uit te wisselen. |
Ruilkring Delft
The Netherlands | De Ruilkring Delft, is opgericht in 1997. |
LETS Utrecht
The Netherlands | Het Sterrenstelsel in Utrecht kan het beste gezien worden als een hele grote vriendenkring, waarbij diensten en goederen worden aangeboden via advertenties in Sterrenstof, die vijf maal per jaar uitkomt. |
NOPPES
The Netherlands | NOPPES is van oorsprong een 'LETSysteem' en is in 1993 door Aktie Strohalm uit Utrecht opgezet. LETS is de internationale term voor handelsnetwerken zoals NOPPES. NOPPES is opgezet om te kunnen experimenteren met het LETSidee. |
Australia |
| Bega Valley Lets | The Bega Valley Local Employment Trading System (BVLets) is one of a worldwide network of alternative trading systems. Based on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia, the BVLets member community exchanges a wide variety of goods and services every year. |
| Canberra LETS Trading Club |
A Local Energy Trading System, operating in the Canberra region of Australia, to provide an information network for members to trade their skills, goods and services using an internal community currency called QBs. |
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